Profiler Start Time

  • I've some concerns about some of the 'maintenance jobs' created by my developers & the impact on the server's performance. These jobs usually run late at night to early in the morning. I thought I run Profiler when these jobs ran, so that I could start to get a handle on what they are doing. How do I schedule Profiler to Start and Stop at specific times?

  • create a server side trace, then just before the jobs start, have a job which starts the trace, to stop it ensure you put a stop time in the create trace command.

    There is a stairway on server side tracing in the stairways section.

  • Gail also covers setting up server-side trace in her articles on query tuning[/url].

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  • Thanks everyone.

    Gail's article was especially helpful.

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